Historical
Overview
of
International
Emancipation
Day
(August
1, 1834)
by
Smithsonian
Anacostia
Museum

[The
British
Imperial
Slavery
Abolition
Act 1833
came
into
force
August
1, 1834
and
abolished
slavery
throughout
the
British
Empire
and its
colonies.
The
historic
action
fueled
abolition
movements
worldwide
and led
to
slavery's
end in
Europe,
the
Caribbean
colonies,
the
U.S.,
and
South
America.]
Historical_Overview_InternationalEmancipationDay.pdf

Black,
Copper,
&
Bright:
The
District
of
Columbia's
Black
Civil
War
Regiment
(FREE
Online
Preview
Video-Run
time: 13
minutes)
A Three
Dimensional
Production
documentary
preview
based on
the book
by
Historian
C.R.
Gibbs,
on
Washington,
DC's 1st
Regiment,
U.S.
Colored
Troops (USCT)
The
regiment
was
comprised
of
Blacks
from the
Eastern
Seaboard
States,
Canada,
and the
Caribbean.

Is based
on the
first
book
ever
published
on the
First
Regiment,
USCT,
organized
in
Washington,
DC in
the
spring
of 1863.
This
regiment
fought
its way
across a
dozen
bloody
battlefields
in
Virginia
and
North
Carolina
during
the
American
Civil
War. Men
of
"African
Descent"
flocked
to its
ranks
from the
Eastern
Seaboard
States,
Canada
and the
Caribbean.
The men,
fugitive
enslaved
and free
blacks,
assembled
and
trained
against
a
tumultuous
backdrop
of
political
infighting,
ambitious
generals,
and
racism
so naked
and
violent
that the
soldiers
were
sent to
an
island
in the
middle
of the
Potomac
River to
escape
attacks
by
pro-Confederate
ruffians
in the
nation's
capital,
the
heart of
the
Union.
At the
end of
the war,
the
regiment
made
history
by being
the
first
African
American
troops
to be
received
by the
President
of the
United
States
at the
White
House
during a
District
of
Columbia
Emancipation
Day
Parade.